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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



3. Candying of the extracted honey 

 in the chunk honey packages spoiled the 

 comb honey for table use. An effort to 

 liquefy the candied honey melted the 

 combs, and the resulting mixture of 

 honey and beeswax was rather a dis- 

 gusting mess to the purchaser who had 

 listened to the salesman's honeyed words 

 in praise of his "Pails of fancy comb- 

 honey, chinked with the finest comb- 

 free honey;" for, when the smiling sales- 

 man again took the field, the sentiment 

 in regard to chunk honey was: 



"Throw physic (chunk honey) to the 

 dogs; I'll none of it." 



It may be said by the chunk honey 

 advocates that the foregoing objections 

 are not good — but they were good enough 

 to cause my customers to call for either 

 comb or extracted honey in almost 

 every instance — much to my regret and 

 financial loss; as I had procured a special 

 outfit for the production of comb honey. 



This question, like many others in 

 apicultural practice, seems to be, in a 

 large degree, one of locality. Our Southern 



brethren have a class of consumers who 

 are apparently satisfied with chunk 

 honey. That such is the case is very 

 fortunate for the bee keepers of the 

 Northern States, as it removes from the 

 possibility of competition with our product 

 immense quantities of Southern honey. 

 Let us hope that the local demand will be 

 greatly increased. 



Whatever may be the demand for 

 other grades of honey, the producer of 

 fancy comb honey from the clover, the 

 raspberry, or the basswood, will always 

 find a market for his crop at prices, 

 which, under judicious methods of pro- 

 duction and marketing, will give a good 

 return for the capital and labor invested. 

 The fancy one-pound section appeals to 

 the eye, the palate and the pocket-book 

 more potently than any other form of 

 package yet devised; and it is to the 

 interest of the producer to preserve in 

 every possible way the beauty and 

 delicacy of his product. 



BiRNAMwooD, Wis., Nov. 26, 1909. 



EDITORIAL 



-J 



No Other man's experience is as good 

 for you as your own. Some one else can 

 only point the way. You must travel it 

 yourself to really know. 



Dreamers have built the world, con- 

 quered the sea. air and desert, and 

 planned civilization — is it undesirable to 

 be included among their number? 



The Review never had more subscribers, 

 or was more prosperous, than at present. 

 The prospects were never better for it 

 to ' make good," and do good. 



Venison, buckwheat cakes and coffee 

 made up an ideal bill of fare at breakfast 

 when 1 enjoyed a visit recently at the 

 home of Mr. E. D. Townsend. 



Gus Dittmer, of Augusta, Wisconsin, 

 having bought one of Dr. Jones' little 

 books on the prevention of swarming, 

 writes me as follows: "I would not let 

 it go for a $1.00 a page, if I could not 

 get another. I believe that the doctor 

 has hit it, and I shall give it a trial 

 another season. I believe it is great. I 

 have confidence in it." 



The price of the book is only 25 cts., 

 or I will send the Review one year, and 

 the book, for only $1.20. 



Condition of Colony and Arrangement of 



Hive in Cellar Wintering. 



In my comments in the Extracted De- 

 partment, on cellar wintering, there is 



